Yorkton This Week

Saskatchewan has 325 new cases Monday

Innovator grows a smart system

The Department of National Defence was responsible for the lion’s share of the federal government’s own carbon pollution last year, according to newly released figures.

Bio-based plastics, most of them compostable to some degree, are proliferating across Canada. Yet millions of compostable cups, containers and bags will probably still end up in landfills. It’s a crisis driven, in part, by bad communication.

Colin Ratushniak has a lot to be excited about right now. The new mayor of La Ronge took the election with 406 of the 777 votes cast in the northern town. The remaining 371 votes split among the three other mayoral candidates.

Santa Claus was maintaining COVID-19 protocols, but still bringing smiles at Harvest Meats in Yorkton Saturday. The Harvest Meats Staff Association typically holds a Christmas Party at this time of year, with Ole’ St.

There are 115 in hospital

On the night before Christmas of 2019, I sat in a cozy corner by our slender lit tree. Minutes earlier I’d stood in the backyard, waiting for our shaggy sheepdog, Cash, to finish his business, and feeling particularly un-festive.

In a real world where we face a worldwide pandemic, worsening world weather events, a widening divide in ideologies, and more stark headlines than we care to admit too, some escapism through a role playing game can be just the ticket to some relief f

Heather Stretch usually spends a few days each winter corralling paperwork that traces her produce from seed to sale to renew her farm’s organic certification. Not this year.